Efforts to protect the UK's native honey bees could be helped by research that maps their entire genetic make-up.
Experts also analysed the genetic profile of bacteria and other organisms that live inside bees, to shed new light on emerging diseases that threaten bee colonies.
Researchers say their findings could help to safeguard native bee populations from the effects of infectious...
Software
Software from the Blaxter lab is available at http://www.nematodes.org/bioinformatics/
A list of software from Mick Watson's group is linked below:
- Meta4: a web application for sharing and annotating metagenomic gene predictions using web services [link]
- viRome: an R package for the visualization and analysis of viral small RNA sequence datasets [link]
- CORNA: testing gene lists for regulation by microRNAs [link]
- DetectiV: visualization, normalization and significance testing for pathogen-detection microarray data [link]
- CoXpress: differential co-expression in gene expression data [link]
- ProGenExpress: Visualization of quantitative data on prokaryotic genomes [link]